Re: [PATCH V2 3/5] DCC: Added the sysfs entries for DCC(Data Capture and Compare) driver

From: Stephen Boyd
Date: Mon Mar 29 2021 - 16:10:24 EST


Quoting Souradeep Chowdhury (2021-03-25 01:02:34)
> The DCC is a DMA engine designed to store register values either in
> case of a system crash or in case of software triggers manually done
> by the user.Using DCC hardware and the sysfs interface of the driver
> the user can exploit various functionalities of DCC.The user can specify
> the register addresses,the values of which is stored by DCC in it's
> dedicated SRAM.The register addresses can be used either to read from,
> write to,first read and store value and then write or to loop.All these
> options can be exploited using the sysfs interface given to the user.
> Following are the sysfs interfaces exposed in DCC driver which are
> documented
> 1)trigger
> 2)config
> 3)config_write
> 4)config_reset
> 5)enable
> 6)rd_mod_wr
> 7)loop
>
> Signed-off-by: Souradeep Chowdhury <schowdhu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-dcc | 114 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Please combine this with the driver patch.

> 1 file changed, 114 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-dcc

Perhaps this should be an ioctl interface instead of a sysfs interface?

>
> diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-dcc b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-dcc
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..05d24f0
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-dcc
> @@ -0,0 +1,114 @@
> +What: /sys/bus/platform/devices/.../trigger
> +Date: March 2021
> +Contact: Souradeep Chowdhury <schowdhu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> +Description:
> + This is the sysfs interface for manual software
> + triggers.The user can simply enter a 1 against
> + the sysfs file and enable a manual trigger.
> + Example:
> + echo 1 > /sys/bus/platform/devices/.../trigger
> +
> +What: /sys/bus/platform/devices/.../enable
> +Date: March 2021
> +Contact: Souradeep Chowdhury <schowdhu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> +Description:
> + This sysfs interface is used for enabling the
> + the dcc hardware.Without this being set to 1,

Space after period please.

> + the dcc hardware ceases to function.
> + Example:
> + echo 0 > /sys/bus/platform/devices/.../enable
> + (disable interface)
> + echo 1 > /sys/bus/platform/devices/.../enable
> + (enable interface)
> +
> +What: /sys/bus/platform/devices/.../config
> +Date: March 2021
> +Contact: Souradeep Chowdhury <schowdhu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> +Description:
> + This is the most commonly used sysfs interface
> + file and this basically stores the addresses of
> + the registers which needs to be read in case of
> + a hardware crash or manual software triggers.
> + Example:
> + echo 0x80000010 10 > /sys/bus/platform/devices/../config
> + This specifies that 10 words starting from address
> + 0x80000010 is to be read.In case there are no words to be
> + specified we can simply enter the address.
> +
> +What: /sys/bus/platform/devices/.../config_write
> +Date: March 2021
> +Contact: Souradeep Chowdhury <schowdhu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> +Description:
> + This file allows user to write a value to the register
> + address given as argument.The values are entered in the
> + form of <register_address> <value>.The reason for this
> + feature of dcc is that for accessing certain registers
> + it is necessary to set some bits of soe other register.

s/soe/some/?

> + That is achievable by giving DCC this privelege.

s/privelege/privilege/

> + Example:
> + echo 0x80000000 0xFF > /sys/bus/platform/devices/.../config_write
> +
> +What: /sys/bus/platform/devices/.../config_reset
> +Date: March 2021
> +Contact: Souradeep Chowdhury <schowdhu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> +Description:
> + This file is used to reset the configuration of
> + a dcc driver to the default configuration.
> + Example:
> + echo 1 > /sys/bus/platform/devices/.../config_reset
> +